Amir Lerner

Biographic Data

ID4120568
NAMEAmir Lerner
GIVEN NAMESAmir
FAMILY NAMELerner
SIGNATURELERNER A
AFFILIATIONSTel Aviv University
ORCID0000-0003-0172-7159
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Earth from Frozen Water? Traces of an Ancient Jewish Dilemma about the Creation of the Earth in Muslim Cosmogony, Reflected in a Rare Oath Formula Found in The 101 Nights

    Amir LernerARTICLEZeitschrift der Deutschen…2023

    In this paper we examine the origins of a quite rare oath formula in Arabic, as expressed by a protagonist in the medieval story collection The 101 Nights. As part of the oath formula, the Deity is depicted as having spread the earth over frozen water. A perusal of ancient Muslim traditions concerning the earth's creation sheds some light on the matter, but the substantive and linguistic picture which these traditions draw is somewhat ambiguous. …

  • Hidden Davidic and Solomonic Legends in The Hundred and One Nights

    Amir LernerARTICLEMedieval Encounters2022

    This paper focuses on what can be identified as ancient Davidic and Solomonic biblical and midrashic narratives, echoed in some of the core stories of The Hundred and One Nights , a story collection in Arabic that took shape among lower strata of medieval society in western part of the Muslim world. We do not identify any specific written Jewish sources as having had a direct influence on the collection. Rather, we would like to reveal some of th…

  • The Golden Rule in The 101 Nights’ Version of The Book of Sindbād, the Question of Literary Context and a Possible Solution Formulated in Later Arabic Versions

    Amir LernerARTICLEQuaderni di Studi Arabi2020

    This paper presents a brief account of, and a number of comments on, the literary history of the golden rule (“do not do unto others what you dislike for yourself”) as found seemingly a bit out of context in the version of The Book of Sindbād contained in the medieval popular story collection The 101 Nights (“The Story of the Prince and the Seven Viziers”). The problem of context and its possible solution are addressed by examining other versions…

  • Rib or Side, Right or Left and the Traits of Women

    Amir LernerARTICLEStudia Islamica2019References: 2

    The creation of Eve from Adam’s body is a theme that has been extensively discussed in scholarship, as part of research into ancient Jewish and Christian sources, within the framework of studies on Islam and Arabic, or in other contexts (see various references throughout this paper below). Here we would like to examine this subject from a slightly different perspective, in the hope of making a modest contribution concerning early non-Muslim refle…

  • Dos fábulas antiguas en la literatura árabe clásica y sus formas en la prosa popular posterior

    Open AccessAmir LernerARTICLEAl-Qanṭara2018

    Este artículo estudia una corta narración en árabe muy conocida a través de diversas versions populares documentadas en manuscritos de diferentes orígenes (Siria, Egipto y Norte de África), comenzando en el siglo XVII. La narración describe cómo un peque.o gorrión queda atrapado en la trampa de un cazador y cómo, mediante todo tipo de estratagemas y usando su ingenio, logra escapar de su terrible destino. Si bien esta narración aparece frecuentem…

  • The Story of the Vizier and His Son” from The Hundred and One Nights

    Amir Lerner, Amir Lerner Amir LernerARTICLENarrative Culture2018

    One of the many topics that attracted the attention of scholars of The Thousand and One Nights (and scholars of medieval Arabic literature in general) was its correspondence with early Jewish elements in its varied literary materials. Similarly, a reading of its sibling, the smaller medieval collection of The Hundred and One Nights, reveals that its stories hide a number of plot constituents with analogues in early Jewish literature, the Bible, t…